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Sherlock Holmes. The Strand Magazine, January 1891 to June 1895 inclusive, in nine bound volumes, notably featuring The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Blue half-calf with red morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled boards, endpapers and page edges. Contents generally good and bright, some volumes with pale spotting, heavier in places, bindings solid with some bumping and wear |
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180 |
£50 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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2 |
Collection of three signed books comprising: Memoirs, by Kingsley Amis, signed on tipped-in publisher's bookplate, London: Hutchinson, 1991, hardback; Fair Stood the Wind for France, by H. E. Bates, first edition, signed in blue ink on half-title, London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1944, publisher's cloth, lacking dust-jacket; The Devil was Handsome, by Maurice Procter, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed & signed on title, 1961, London: Hutchinson, 1961, publisher's cloth, lacking d.j. (3) |
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50 |
£50 - £80 |
Unsold |
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3 |
Collection of signed books, comprising: Restoration, by Rose Tremain, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989, hardback, clipped dust-jacket; Atonement, by Ian McEwan, London: Vintage, 2002, paperback; Death in Holy Orders, by P. D. James, London: Faber & Faber, 2001, hardback, unclipped d.j.; Minding Frankie, by Maeve Binchy, London: Orion, 2010, hardback, unclipped d.j.; Tara Road, by Maeve Binchy, London: Orion, 1998, hardback, unclipped d.j.; 'Tis, by Frank McCourt, London: Flamingo, 1999, hardback, u |
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50 |
£60 - £100 |
Unsold |
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4 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's laminated pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Excellent condition, unread and almost as new, slightest wear to extremities, incredibly |
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69000 |
£40,000 - £60,000 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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5 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53. Lacking title page (and therefore imprint), but the issue points on boards indicate a true first printing. Contents generally good with slight toning; slight |
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15000 |
£2,000 - £3,000 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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6 |
Sackville-West, Vita. Sissinghurst, signed limited edition numbered 473 of 500, London: Printed by hand by Leonard & Virginia Woolf and published at The Hogarth Press, 1931, small quarto, publisher's paper boards. Together with a loosely inserted autograph letter signed by Nancy Mitford, 7 Rue Monsieur VII letterhead bearing manufacturer's watermark (The Westminster Note), 11 March 1954, 'Dear Miss Sackville-West, Oh what an angel idea! No, I think I knew in the back of my mind that you are "doi |
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1000 |
£500 - £800 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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7 |
Manuscript receipt book for C. Winstanley Esq., Leicester [believed to be the Winstanley family of Braunstone Hall], bought of Sarson & Co., beginning Christmas eve, 1836, and closing October, 1838. 28pp. listing various items & prices, including best raisins; best currants; lemons; peel; tea; Turkey coffee; ginger; raw sugar; almonds; best rice; semolina; nutmegs; mustard; starch; balls of twine; turpentine; soft soap; vermicelli; peppercorns; oranges; soda; camomiles; blue paper; hand brushes; |
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85 |
£40 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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8 |
Harry Potter. Association copies & ephemera from Matthew LaCroix (author of the fan mail that was famously used on the dust-jacket of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this being a collection of gifts from Bloomsbury to Matthew, together with correspondence and contemporary newspaper clippings recording his story. Collection comprising: Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, hardback, featuring Bloomsbury plate signed in black ink by the |
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1300 |
£1,200 - £1,500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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9 |
Clementine Churchill (1885-1977). Typed letter signed, 12 November 1941, 10 Downing Street letterhead, thanking Mr Fielding-Clark and his parishioners for their contribution to the Russian aid fund, signed in black ink, 'Clementine S Churchill'. Together with a poster, Aid for Russia Week, printed in red & black by Durrants of Edenbridge, and A Speech by The Prime Minister the Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons, August 20th, 1940, printed by The Baynard Press (3) |
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230 |
£80 - £120 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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10 |
Gray, Bernard. War Reporter, first edition, London: Robert Hale Limited, 1942, octavo, publisher's red cloth with unclipped dust-jacket, featuring loosely-inserted typed letter signed by the author, 25 October 1939, addressed to 'Cousin Nellie', signed in pencil ('signed in full to aid censor'). War correspondent Bernard Gray was killed on submarine HMS Urge in April 1942, something that has only been uncovered in recent years. The book's prologue, by Anthony Hern, states, 'Gray is one of the sm |
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70 |
£80 - £120 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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11 |
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, deluxe edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979, publisher's gilt decorated cloth, very good, clean, bright, appears unread, housed in box bearing paper label, some scuffs and slight wear to box. Together with The Lord of the Rings, deluxe edition, 1979, clean and bright, slight creasing to the very fine paper pages, slight wear to box (2) |
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180 |
£100 - £150 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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12 |
[Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge], "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass, illustrated by Peter Newell, New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902, publisher's cream paper-covered boards illustrated and lettered in gilt, untrimmed page edges, top edge gilt, frontispiece portrait with protective tissue-guard to each volume. Contents generally good and bright, pale spotting to covers and opening leaves of each book, wear to the edges of some pages where they hav |
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95 |
£70 - £100 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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13 |
FRANKENSTEIN. Milner, Henry M. The Man and the Monster! Or, The Fate of Frankenstein; A Peculiar Romantic Melo-dramatic Pantomimic Spectacle, In Two Acts, Founded principally on Mrs. Shelly's [Mary Shelley] singular Work, entitled, "Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus"...As it is Performed at The London Theatres, London: John Duncombe, [1826]. Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Mr O. Smith as the Monster [the first illustration of the monster in print], and final page with Disposition |
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1700 |
£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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14 |
Greenwell, G. C. A Practical Treatise on Mine Engineering, second edition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Lambert, 1869. Quarto, half-calf, all edges gilt, illustrated with 64 colour lithographic plates. Contents generally good with slight toning, occasional pale marks/spots (more pronounced at endleaves and beginning, including title), p.1 removed, ffep detached, binding worn and becoming loose, sold as found with all faults |
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40 |
£40 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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15 |
An extensive archive of 18th & 19th-century newspapers, including reports of murders and escaped convicts, various conflicts, including American Revolutionary War, Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, Opium War, various laws being passed, numerous advertisements for quack cures, new books being published, food stuffs (including turtle). The Morning Chronicle, 77 issues (14 from 1782, 63 from 1784); Evening Mail, 13 issues, January & February 1815; The Times, eight issues, 1813 & |
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320 |
£100 - £200 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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16 |
A New Biblia Pauperum, London: Unwin Brothers, The Gresham Press, 1877, limited edition, prospectus & book numbered 197 of 257, each signed by the publishers (Unwin Brothers), paper boards in imitation vellum. Contents very good, clean, bright; offsetting and a few pale marks to paper covers of prospectus; armorial bookplate for J. S. Larecombe on front pastedown; boards attractive, some splitting to joints and bumping/wear to extremities; brass clasps detached but present |
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£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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17 |
Rowling, J. K. Telling Tales, An Interview with J. K. Rowling, by Lindsey Fraser, London: Mammoth, 2000, paperback, signed by Rowling in bold black ink on title page, together with two tickets for J. K. Rowling: Harry's Back, Edinburgh International Book Festival, 13 August 2000, where the book was signed. Very well-preserved, unread |
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1900 |
£250 - £350 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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18 |
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, London: Unwin Hayman Ltd., 1986, hardback, signed & inscribed by the author, 'To Stephen, with love, Roald Dahl, 1989'. Together with a loosely-inserted ticket for the premiere of Danny the Champion of the World, Odeon, West End, 27 July 1989, and Dahl's original trophy for winning the Junior Myers Fives Cup at Repton School in 1932, as described in his autobiographical book, Boy, 'Fives is possibly the fastest ball-game on earth, far faster than s |
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1600 |
£1,000 - £2,000 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fourth issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4'. Contents incredibly good, clean, bright; one tiny, faint ink mark on front free endpaper; binding tight and square, boards incredibly well-preserved (the book appears unread); dust-jacket very well-preserved, bold and vibrant with only very faint bumping/wear to extreme edges. An excellent copy. Together with two paperback |
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600 |
£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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20 |
Fleming, Ian. Live and Let Die, London: Jonathan Cape, reprinted 1960. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jacket by Kenneth Lewis (priced 15s. net). Contents very good, clean, bright; some pale spotting to outer edges of text-block; dust jacket with general toning and handling marks, chipping and slight loss to corners and edges of spine, short tear to upper joint of spine |
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70 |
£50 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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21 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Signed by the author in bold blue ink on Bloomsbury bookplate mounted on front free endpapers. Contents very good, clean, bright; very faint patch of wear on rear pastedown; usual faint toning to outer edges of text-block; boards well-preserved, bold, vibrant; very slight shelf-lean |
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1550 |
£1,500 - £2,000 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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22 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, third issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3'. Contents very good, clean, bright; boards well-preserved, bold and vibrant; very light bumping and discolouration to extreme edges of spine; shelf-lean; dust-jacket with discolouration/fading and creasing to edges |
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1700 |
£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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23 |
Order of Service for the Coronation of HM King George IV at Westminster Abbey, London: Eyre & Strahan, 1821, small quarto, blue paper covers, all edges gilt, and another similar for Edward VII, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1902. Contents very good, clean, bright; covers of George IV very good with slight wear to extremities; covers of Edward VII with some light discolouration/scuffing and wear around spine/extremities (2) |
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25 |
£30 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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24 |
The Magic-Beano Book, London: D.C. Thompson & Co. Ltd., [1943]. Pictorial boards, 127pp., complete with all stories, no scribbling. Contents with usual toning, occasional tears, pages towards rear are loose but present; binding becoming loose, heavily worn to spine, corners bumped & worn, sold as found with all faults |
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150 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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25 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, signed by the author on Bloomsbury bookplate on front free endpaper, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, hardback, contents generally good with some lightly creased corners and a few pale marks in places, binding worn, lacking dust-jacket, sold as found with all faults |
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200 |
£150 - £250 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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26 |
Political Interest. Collection of four signed books comprising: The Governance of Britain, by Harold Wilson, London: Sphere, 1977, paperback; Music: A Joy for Life, by Edward Heath, London: Pavilion, 1997, hardback; H. G. The History of H. G. Wells, by Michael Foot, London: Black Swan, 1995, paperback. Together with Memories of Life and Living, by Walter Moorcroft, signed, Somerset: Richard Dennis, 1999, hardback (4) |
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£40 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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27 |
Dickens, Charles. The Works, Life and Letters, "The Charles Dickens Edition", London: Chapman & Hall, [c.1880s], bound in 16 volumes, octavo, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers & page edges, condition generally appears good. Together with The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, in 26 volumes, London: Smith, Edler, 1880s, half morocco bindings lettered in gilt, and The Letters of Queen Victoria, in three volumes, London: John Murray, 1908, publisher's cloth. Condition vari |
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60 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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28 |
Folio Society. Collection of popular modern classics, 29 volumes, all but two in slipcases. Together with a miscellaneous collection of books, to include Tennyson's Poetical Works, in two crushed morocco volumes lettered in gilt, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860; Time for a Tiger, by Anthony Burgess, first edition, London: Heinemann, 1956, lacking dust-jacket; That Uncertain Feeling, by Kingsley Amis, first edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1955, ex-library, lacking d.j., and others, condition |
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18 |
£40 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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29 |
Watts, Charlie. Ode to a Highflying Bird, first edition, first impression, London: Beat Publications Ltd., [1964]. Illustrated children's book, being a tribute to jazz saxophonist Charlie "Yardbird" Parker by the late drummer of the Rolling Stones. Octavo, white paper-covered boards, colour illustrations. Contents generally bright with some light spotting in places, a few heavier marks on a couple of pages, slight wear around edges of spine, marks and light rubbing to boards |
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270 |
£100 - £150 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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30 |
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species, sixth edition, 35th thousand, London: John Murray, 1888. Octavo, full calf prize binding by Bickers & Son, London, contrasting title labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and all edges, prize inscription dated 1889. Contents generally good, clean, bright, some light handling marks & spotting in places; binding tight and square, a few scuffs, corners bumped/worn, wear to extremities and headcaps |
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115 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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Brickhill, Paul. A typed or carbon copy of Tunnel to Freedom [later expanded by Brickhill into The Great Escape], by Flight Lieutenant Paul Brickhill, Royal Australian Air Forces, As told to Allan A. Michie, no date, c.1945, 7pp., thin paper, some loss affecting the final few lines on each sheet, 'As soon as we moved in, notices were posted asking for volunteers to play cricket and softball. The notices were signed "Big X". Everybody knew what that meant and 500 signed up for the tunnel work. It |
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£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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32 |
The World's Fair; Or Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851, London: Thomas Dean & Son and Ackermann Brothers [1851]. Publisher's gilt decorated cloth, pale yellow endpapers with contemporary owner inscription, 'Master W H Johnson', hand-coloured frontispiece and pictorial title, main title, 106pp., numerous wood-engraved illustrations within the text, and 21pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Contents generally good, occasional pale marks and faint creases to corners; so |
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£100 - £150 |
Unsold |
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33 |
Oliver Fielding-Clarke's copiously annotated copy of Notes for Equipment Officers of the Royal Flying Corps, with loosely inserted photographic portrait of the same against a Communist propaganda backdrop; a small quantity of post-war pamphlets and propaganda publications relating to the Communist Party, to include Statements by Two Captured U.S. Air Force Officers on Their Participation in Germ Warfare in Korea, published by The World Council of Peace, and The Corporate State, by A. Raven Thoms |
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45 |
£60 - £100 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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34 |
Mist, Nathaniel. Mist's Weekly Journal, approximately 140 issues bound in one volume, January 1726 to December 1727. A frequently prosecuted opposition newspaper to the Whig administration, printed by this notable Jacobite journalist. The papers include reports of robberies, highwaymen, murders, executions, pirates, booksellers being arrested for printing 'obscene books'. There are numerous advertisements for quack cures, treatments for venereal disease, artificial teeth, care for 'lunaticks', h |
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2500 |
£200 - £300 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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35 |
La Sainte Bible, Rouen: Pierre Amiot, 1681. Large octavo, 24.5cm, full contemporary calf, woodcut vignettes to titles and head-pieces at beginning of Old & New Testament. Crude restoration to binding, discolouration & wear, not collated, sold as found with all faults |
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£200 - £300 |
Unsold |
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36 |
Tuer, Andrew W. London Cries, proof, signed by the author [one of 250 large paper copies], London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse, [1883]. Quarto, half-cloth with paper title label, 45pp., numerous hand-coloured illustrations. Contents generally good and bright, pale spotting and marks to first/last leaves (far more pronounced at endpapers); text-block detached from boards (loose); covers with some rubbing/marks and wear to extremities. Together with Changing London (Second Series), by Hans |
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£100 - £150 |
Unsold |
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37 |
Frohawk, F. W. (Illust.). British Birds With Their Nests and Eggs, in six volumes, London: Brumby & Clarke, n.d. Quarto, publisher's gilt illustrated cloth, all edges gilt, numerous black & white illustrations and chromolithographic plates. Together with another set bound in blue half-calf with marbled boards and morocco title labels lettered in gilt, and two volumes of another set. Condition varied, sold as found with all faults (14) |
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140 |
£100 - £200 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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38 |
Fleming, Ian. From Russia With Love, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. Octavo, publisher's decorated cloth, unclipped dust-jacket by Richard Chopping (priced 13s. 6d. net). Contents very good, clean, bright; ink inscription on ffep, 'James Bond 007'; a few tiny marks and faint pencil on endpapers; binding tight and square, very slight bumping to extremities; faint spotting to top edge; dust-jacket with some general toning and faint spotting; chipping and slight loss to corners and edge |
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680 |
£500 - £800 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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39 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Inscribed and signed by the author in bold blue ink on dedication page, 'To Angela, Happy 13th birthday! Have a much better birthday than Harry - J. K. Rowling'. Contents very good, clean, bright; very faint patch of wear on rear pastedown; boards good, bold, vibrant; corners bumped |
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3000 |
£2,000 - £3,000 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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40 |
Late-Victorian sample book of colours arranged into the following categories: Regimental; Cambridge Colleges; Oxford Colleges; Cricket; Schools; Tennis; Boating/Rowing; Various Clubs. The album includes a mounted clipping from an autograph letter signed by W. G. Grace (1848-1915), English cricketer, widely considered to be one of the greatest-ever players, which is lightly mounted at the corners facing the page of cricket colours (including MCC). A similar clipping from an autograph letter signe |
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£300 - £400 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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41 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fourth issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4'. Contents very good, clean, bright; boards well-preserved, bold and vibrant; a few tiny spots on top edge of text-block; dust-jacket good with very slight fading at spine and a short tear at rear fold |
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440 |
£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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42 |
Collection of children's & illustrated books to include seven stories by Dorothy Burroughes, first editions, London: John Lane, 1933, and Methuen, 1931-32; The Boo-Boos and Santa Claus, by Mabel Lucie Attwell, Valentine & Sons Ltd., n.d.; More Adventures of a Teddy Bear, illustrated by Joyce Lankester Brisley, first edition, London: Harrap, 1935 (and a further five reprinted stories by the same); The Voyage of the Mary Adair, by Frances E. Crompton, London: Nister, n.d.; six 1920s/30s Algonquin |
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200 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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43 |
Collection of vintage children's books, to include The Monster Rupert, 1952, The Adventures of Larry the Lamb (Toy Town Series 1-8), a quantity of Ladybird books, and Mr Men books, condition varied, sold as found with all faults |
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15 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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44 |
Camden, William. Remaines concerning Britaine, second edition, London: John Legatt for Simon Waterson, 1614. Full calf with black morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents generally good and bright, occasional creases/marks; occasional neat contemporary marginalia; errors with page numbers at pp.181/190 & 332/338, but text following on correctly; final leaf (p.386) detached but present; binding with some wear and splitting to joints. The book features an essay by Richard |
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270 |
£60 - £100 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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45 |
Church, Richard. Collection of 14 books, mostly first editions, to include Over the Bridge, reprinted 1956, signed by the author on ffep; The Dangerous Years, Proof Copy, London: Heinemann, 1956; Twenty-five Lyrical Poems, signed limited edition numbered 338 of 500, London: Heinemann, 1967, and others, some lacking jackets, condition varied, collection sold as found with all faults (14) |
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£30 - £40 |
Unsold |
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46 |
Dedekind, Friedrich. Grobianus et Grobiana, Hardervici: Nicolaum a Wieringen, 1650. Duodecimo, full polished calf with raised bands and morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, silk page marker, central woodcut device on title. A satirical poem in which the fictional Saint Grobian - patron saint of vulgar people - teaches people to avoid bad banners, gluttony and drunkenness. Contents very good, clean, bright, some very pale staining to a few pages, a few tiny marks; owner inscri |
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£70 - £100 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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47 |
The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, London: Printed by the Company of Booksellers,[c.1856]. Octavo, contemporary quarter-calf with marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial title page with wood-engraved portrait of Palmer in the dock, memoir, list of counsel, 2pp. advertisements for works published by W. M. Clark, Warwick Lane, 148pp. text. Contents good and bright, slight cockling, spotting to endpapers; binding tight and square, corners bumped |
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45 |
£40 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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48 |
Aldin, Cecil (Illus.). A Gay Dog, first edition, London: William Heinemann, 1905. Quarto, publisher's quarter-cloth with illustrated boards, illustrated with 24 colour lithographic plates, bookseller's ticket on front pastedown (J J Banks & Son, Cheltenham). Contents very good, clean, bright; illustrations vibrant; slight toning to title and a few very pale spots in places; some rust marks to inner gutters at endpapers; binding solid, boards vibrant, corners/edges with bumping and wear, some dus |
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30 |
£50 - £70 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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49 |
Dalton, William Hugh. The New and Complete English Traveller, London: Alexander Hogg, [1794]. Folio. Illustrated with frontispiece, 91 views (on 51 plates), and 40 maps (on 18 plates), one of which is a folding map of England & Wales - making a total of 70 plates. Contemporary owner inscription on front pastedown, 'Edward Maltby'. 4pp. list of subscribers at rear. Contemporary polished calf with oxblood morocco title label lettered in gilt, rebacked with the original spine laid down. Contents ge |
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300 |
£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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50 |
Milton Erwin Kahl, "Milt" (American, 1909-1987), animator for Walt Disney, often considered one of the finest draughtsmen and most influential of Disney's Nine Old Men. Self-portrait (inspecting a fishing fly with his companion), ink & wash, signed & dedicated, 'To Don [Donald Overfield, angling author] and Jo - unfortunately, this didn't turn out to look much like either of us! Although I can think of many ways in which Finch could have glorified me a little more, I hope you enjoy the book. Ver |
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£300 - £500 |
Unsold |
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51 |
Watson, W. and H. J. Chapman. Orchids: Their Culture and Management, London: L. Upcott Gill, 1903. Octavo, publisher's gilt illustrated cloth, top edge gilt, 20 colour plates (including frontispiece) as called for, as well as numerous black & white illustrations throughout text, advertisements & catalogue at rear. Contents good and bright, occasional pale spotting, binding with some discolouration and wear to extremities & joints |
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45 |
£30 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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52 |
Fleming, Ian. Dr. No, third impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. Octavo, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket by Pat Marriott (priced 15s. net). Contents good and bright; binding tight and square; pale spotting to outer edges of text-block; jacket with some general toning and handling marks; chipping and slight loss to corners, edges, edges of spine; protective cellophane wrappers |
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40 |
£50 - £70 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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53 |
Lilly, William. Christian Astrology, second edition, London: John Macock, 1659. Considered to be one of the most important works of Western astrology. Small quarto, woodcut frontispiece portrait, woodcut diagrams & illustrations within the text, owner inscription of Richard Jennyns, 1680, copiously annotated with marginalia throughout (presumably by the same), later owner inscription of Lucy Crick, aged fifteen, 11 February 1766. Contents generally good and bright, a few light marks and slight w |
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340 |
£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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54 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Contents very good, clean, bright; slight wear to top of gutter at front endpapers; boards well-preserved, bold and vibrant; very light bumping and faint wear to extreme corners; slight shelf-lean; dust-jacket with some discolouration/fading to spine and wear to edges |
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520 |
£400 - £600 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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55 |
Glimpses of the East, 1937-1938, Nippon Yusen Kaisha's Official Guide, edited by T. Kawata, Tokyo: N.Y.K. Line, 1937. Illustrated guide with advertising. 26.5cm. Contents very good, clean, bright; covers well-preserved with some very pale spotting and handling marks, light wear to extremities |
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£40 - £60 |
Unsold |
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56 |
Dickens, Charles. Household Words: A Weekly Journal, in 19 volumes, London: Office, 1850-59. Octavo, half-calf with marbled boards. A well-preserved set (19) |
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640 |
£200 - £300 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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57 |
Miscellaneous collection of books to include The Little Sister, by Harriet Myrtle, London: Addey & Co., 1852; Marine Painting in Water-Colour, by W. L. Wyllie, London: Cassell, 1901; The Life of a Bold AB on His Ship in the Rolling C, by Will Kidd, London: Dean's Rag Books, n.d., and others, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (10) |
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10 |
£30 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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58 |
Olmsted, Frederick Law. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, in two volumes, New York & London: Putnam's, Knickerbocker Press, 1904, and A Journey in the Back Country, in two volumes, 1907, the first volume of each bearing a mounted clipping signed by the author (presumably taken from an earlier autograph letter or note). Octavo, uniformly bound in half crushed morocco with marbled cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (remainder untrimmed), marbled cloth endpapers, frontispiece portrait wit |
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£300 - £500 |
Unsold |
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59 |
Culpeper, Nicholas; E. Sibley. Culpeper's English Physician; And Complete Herbal, to Which Are Now First Added Upwards of One Hundred additional Herbs, With a Display of Their Medicinal and Occult Properties...Forming a Complete Family Dispensatory, London: Lewis & Hamblin, 1807. Illustrated with numerous engraved plates, including a frontispiece to both sections. Quarto, crudely rebound incorporating animal hide boards, contents generally good with pale spotting and wear in places, sold as foun |
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60 |
£100 - £150 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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60 |
John, Augustus. Augustus John, Fifty-two drawings with an Introduction by Lord David Cecil, London: George Rainbird, 1957. Folio, cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 10 guineas), lithograph self-portrait frontispiece. Very well-preserved, clean, bright, a few tiny pale spots; dust-jacket good with slight loss at edges, protective cellophane wrappers |
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£80 - £120 |
Unsold |
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61 |
Fleming, Ian. For Your Eyes Only, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. Octavo, publisher's cloth (lettered in gilt to spine), price-clipped dust-jacket by Richard Chopping. Contents very good, clean, bright; some very pale staining to edges of rear free endpaper; binding tight and square; dust-jacket with general toning and handling marks, chipping and slight loss to corners and edges of spine, creasing to edges; protective cellophane wrappers |
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180 |
£150 - £250 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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62 |
Palladio, Andrea. The First Book of Architecture, translated into English by Godfrey Richards, eighth edition, London: Eben. Tracey, 1716, illustrated with 64 engraved plates only [of 71], four of which are folding, plus engraved pictorial title and woodcut illustrations within the text. Small quarto, contemporary calf, boards detached, some plates torn, sold as found with all faults |
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50 |
£40 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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63 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Contents very good, clean, bright; boards very well-preserved, bold and vibrant; dust-jacket very well-preserved and vibrant, protected by an additional plastic sleeve. An excellent example |
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330 |
£400 - £600 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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64 |
Collection of vintage motoring books, brochures, maps |
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10 |
£30 - £40 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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65 |
Manuscript equine veterinary book, being a copy of Samuel Drinkwater's Every Man His Own Farrier, copied out and kept by a Thomas Cross, 1801 (inscribed on front pastedown), every page copiously filled to the end, 76 leaves (152pp.), small quarto, contemporary marbled paper-covered boards with recent tape repair to spine. Contents well-preserved, first two leaves detached, binding worn as found |
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40 |
£80 - £120 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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66 |
Miscellaneous collection of books, some leather bindings, to include Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles & Mary Lamb, London: Bickers & Son, 1876; Aesop's Fables, translated by Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend, London: Routledge, 1867; The Works of Edmund Spenser, London: Henry Washbourne, 1850; Holy Bible, Glasgow: William Collins, 1869, and others, some school prizes, some ex-library, condition varied, collection sold as found with all faults (25) |
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120 |
£50 - £70 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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67 |
Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt to spine with blind-embossed skeletal hand to upper board, unclipped dust-jacket by Richard Chopping (priced 15s. net). Contents good, clean, bright; spotting to edges of text-block encroaching slightly at top edges of pages; binding tight and square, a couple of bumps to top edge of boards; dust-jacket with slight toning, chipping and very slight loss to corners/edges; slight creasi |
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200 |
£150 - £250 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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68 |
Early-19th century manuscript glossary in Devanagari script with some entries in Hindi and Sanskrit, translations in English. Folio, contemporary half-calf with marbled boards, 228pp. Contents very good, clean, bright, well-preserved, vibrant yellow pages; binding tight and square with wear to corners and extremities, rubbing/wear to boards |
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70 |
£100 - £200 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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69 |
Rowling, J. K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, first edition, London: Children's High Level Group, December, 2008, full crushed morocco with metal clasps and decorations to upper board, protective red velvet bag bearing embroidered signature, ten prints in original envelope, the whole housed within a solander box in the form of a leather-bound book lettered in gilt with raised bands. Complete with white card slipcase, 'This Side Up'. Very well-preserved, clean, bright; minor/faint wear at lower ed |
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130 |
£100 - £200 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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70 |
[Reuben Ramble, pseud. Rev. Samuel Clark. The World & Its Inhabitants, or, The Travels & Adventures of Reuben Ramble, London: Darton & Clark, c.1840], illustrated juvenile book describing The World, France, The West Indies, Italy, China, Russia, England, Australia, and New Zealand, with eight hand-coloured plates, each featuring a map surrounded by vignettes of landmarks, notable buildings, costume, customs/culture, the first & last plate pasted to the cloth covers, colours well-preserved and vi |
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30 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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71 |
Sherer, John. Rural Life, Described and Illustrated, In the Management of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry...with Authentic Information on all that Relates to Modern Farming, Gardening, Shooting, Angling, London & New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited, [c.1868-69], in five quarto volumes, publisher's gilt decorated cloth, numerous illustrations throughout, contents generally very good and bright with pale spotting to first/last leaves, bindings good, tight, squar |
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140 |
£40 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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72 |
Fleming, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Octavo, publisher's decorated cloth, unclipped dust-jacket by Richard Chopping (priced 15s. net). Contents good and bright with a couple of marks in places, a patch of discolouration running through the top corner of several leaves, faint creasing to extreme corner of a few pages; binding good with a couple of bumps to top edge and corner, shelf-lean, spotting to edges of text-block; jacket with handling marks, chipp |
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130 |
£150 - £200 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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73 |
Harry Potter. Collection of first editions, comprising: Philosopher's Stone, Celebration Edition, first issue, paperback, 2001; Goblet of Fire, hardback, 2000; Order of the Phoenix, hardback, 2003; Half-Blood Prince, hardback, 2005; two copies of Deathly Hallows, hardback, 2007; two copies of Chamber of Secrets, first issue, paperback, 1998; Prisoner of Azkaban, first issue, paperback, 1999. Together with six other Harry Potter novels. Most books in reasonable, read condition, some better than o |
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20 |
£40 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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74 |
Edwardian album kept by Muriel Ivy Townsend of Shrubland House, Fordham, Cambridgeshire, 1904-1909, filled with inscriptions by family & friends, poems, illustrations, including sketches & watercolours after postcard artists/cartoonists of the era, small quarto, bound in straight-grain morocco lettered in gilt, contents well-preserved, binding worn |
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18 |
£30 - £40 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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75 |
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. Octavo, publisher's cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket by Richard Chopping. Contents good, clean, bright, a couple of spots and marks to endpapers, neat contemporary owner inscription to ffep, 'Richard Davies, April 63, James Bond - "O.H.M.S.S." by Ian Fleming'; binding good and square; dust-jacket with light handling marks, a few pale spots (more pronounced verso), chipping and slight loss to corners and ed |
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120 |
£100 - £150 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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76 |
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean and bright, but with some pale staining and small spots to inside covers and first/last leaves (more pronounced at rear) |
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3700 |
£2,500 - £3,500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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77 |
Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket by Richard Chopping (priced 16s. net). Contents good and bright with a few tiny marks in places, slight wear to stitching at gutter of half-title; contemporary owner inscription, 1964; binding good but with pronounced shelf-lean; dust-jacket with general toning, chipping and slight loss to corners and edges of spine; light creasing at edges |
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60 |
£50 - £70 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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78 |
Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt with blind-embossed skeletal hand on upper board, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping and priced 15s. net (with Jonathan Cape sticker mounted above, priced 16s 0d), bearing several stamps from F. J. A. Hens & Harris Book Co., Hong Kong. Contents very good and bright, some light spotting to outer edges of text-block and endpapers (more pronounced on fore-edge); binding tight and |
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230 |
£150 - £250 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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79 |
Amalgamated Press. A well-preserved collection comprising: The Sexton Blake Library, No. 343: The King's Secret, 1924; No.22: The Affair of the Diamond Star, 1925; The Boys' Friend Library, No.30: The Web of the Spider!, 1926; No.55: Northward Ho!, 1926; No.56: The Riddle of the Caves, 1926; No.59: The Arctic Treasure Hunters, 1926; No.60: Outlaw and Sheriff!, 1926 (7) |
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25 |
£40 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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80 |
Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket by Richard Chopping (priced 18s net). Contents very good, clean, bright, an incredibly faint stain at top of title page; binding good with faint bumping to lower corners and a few marks to lower board; slight shelf-lean; dust-jacket good and bright with slight toning to spine, faint surface wear to joints, chipping and slight loss to corners and around spine; pr |
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70 |
£80 - £120 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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81 |
Tull, Jethro. Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: Or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage, fourth edition, London: A. Millar, 1762. Octavo, quarter-calf lettered in gilt, illustrated with seven folding plates. Contents good and bright, the plates well-preserved; some very faint marks and spotting in a few places; contemporary owner inscriptions to opening blanks, manuscript numbers in some of the margins; binding solid but worn, corners bumped, some loss to the marbled paper and calf at ext |
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85 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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82 |
Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped jacket by Richard Chopping (priced 10s. 6d. net in U.K. only). Contents very good, clean, bright; binding very good, tight, square; dust-jacket very good with slight toning to spine, very faint wear to extreme corners and edges of spine |
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140 |
£150 - £200 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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83 |
WW2. Folder of files predominantly dating from 1944, including intelligence memorandums, details of operations, reports, most documents headed 'secret' or 'confidential', approx. 100 sheets in binder |
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620 |
£60 - £100 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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84 |
Anonymous. The Field, the Fox-Hunt and the Farm, London: Warne & Co., [c.1880], comprising The Little Sportsman's Alphabet, The Farmyard Hunt, and A Country Holiday. Quarto, publisher's gilt embossed cloth, charming colour lithographic illustrations throughout, complete in 75pp. Contents generally good with vibrant colours, some handling marks and occasional pale spots, slight wear in places, pencil scribble on final page, ffep worn/detached, lacking rear endpaper, binding with wear and discolou |
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28 |
£30 - £40 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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85 |
Collection of vintage catalogues & brochures for Airfix, Tamiya, Britains, 1950s-80s; assorted hardback reference books on toy soldiers, Britains, hollow-cast figures; a quantity of vintage auction catalogues for toy soldiers & figures; illustrated guides for collectors of British toy soldiers. Together with a small quantity of military reference, including With the Flag to Pretoria, London: Harmsworth, 1901, and two pairs of binoculars. In two well-filled crates (2) |
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95 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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86 |
Pocket Volume of Musick, London: J. Cluer & B. Creake, no date, c.1720, featuring 14pp. list of subscribers, advertisement for a forthcoming publication of 'all Mr Handel's Operas', 152pp. sheet music, lacking title, rebound in panelled calf. Together with The Rambler, by Samuel Johnson, in three volumes, London: Thomas Tegg, 1826, contemporary green calf lettered in gilt; Hoyle's Games, revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, London: W. Wood, 1778, disbound; The New Week's Preparation For a Wort |
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45 |
£50 - £70 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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87 |
Walker, Donald. Games and Sports; Being an Appendix to "Manly Exercises" and "Exercises for Ladies", London: Thomas Hurst, 1837. Frontispiece (Masquerade of Games), pictorial title, and 33 plates as called for. 18pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Describing a 'match at foot-ball', the book states, 'If this game requires little skill, it certainly requires great command of temper. An unfortunate kick upon the shins, which cannot at this game be always avoided, often produces a similar compl |
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22 |
£40 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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88 |
Wallis's New Pocket Edition of the English Counties or Travellers Companion, London: J. Wallis, [1810]. Complete with all 42 hand-coloured, copper engraved county maps as called for (Yorkshire being a folding map), plus a map of England & Wales, and a smaller map of the Isle of Wight. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown, 'Sold at C. Rice's Circulating Library, Bookseller, 123 Mount Street, London.' Contents generally good throughout with creamy toning to paper; wear to the gutter affecting a |
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30 |
£50 - £70 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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89 |
Johns, W. E. Collection of Biggles, Worrals and Gimlet books. To include several first editions, as well as later reprints, Regent Classics, Kingston Library, Star Book and Oxford editions. Better titles/firsts are Biggles Goes to School, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951; Biggles Follows On, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952; Biggles in the Blue, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1953; Biggles Foreign Legionnaire, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954; Biggles and the Pirate Treasure, Leicester: Brockham |
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240 |
£100 - £200 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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90 |
Blyton, Enid. Collection of Famous Five, Five Find-Outers, and Adventures. Mostly reprints, some first editions, including The River of Adventure, London: Macmillan, 1955; Five Have a Wonderful Time, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952; Five on a Secret Trail, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1956; Five Have Plenty of Fun, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955; The Rubadub Mystery, London: Collins, 1952; The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage, London: Methuen, 1954; The Rat-a-Tat Mystery, London: Collins, 1956. Con |
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120 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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91 |
Motherby, George. A New Medical Dictionary...Relating to Anatomy, Physiology, Physic, Surgery, Materia Medica, Pharmacy, first edition, London: J. Johnson, 1775. Folio, full contemporary calf, gilt armorial binding for Society of Writers to the Signet, 25 plates, including two engraved tables of Chymical Characters. Contents generally good, clean, bright; endpapers/title with dampstaining and spotting; binding worn with detached boards, sold as found with all faults |
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320 |
£200 - £300 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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92 |
Darwin, Charles. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in four volumes, London: Commemorative Facsimile Edition, 1994, reproduced to match Darwin's own personal copy, numbered 142 of 1000, authenticated by The Royal Geographical Society. Quarto, half-leather bindings lettered in gilt with marbled boards, housed in wooden slipcase (specially commissioned for this commemorative edition, and designed also for use as a display lectern), the books in cellophane wrappers, together with brochure |
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£600 - £700 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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93 |
Miniature Poets, in 12 volumes, including Burns, Tennyson, Longfellow, Hood, Milton, Scott, and Wordsworth, London: W. Kent & Co., 1880-81. Uniformly bound in contemporary green cloth, floral endpapers, all edges gilt, housed in matching green cloth case. Books good and bright, the case with some rubbing and wear |
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55 |
£40 - £60 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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94 |
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519: The Complete Paintings and Drawings, by Frank Zollner, London: Taschen, 2003, folio, hardback with dust-jacket and card carrying case; Michelangelo 1475-1564: Complete Works, by Zollner, Thoenes and Popper, London: Taschen, 2007, folio, hardback with dust-jacket and card carrying case; The Works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970, folio, hardback with dust-jacket and slipcase (3) |
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£100 - £200 |
Unsold |
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95 |
A well-filled Victorian cabinet card & carte-de-visite album containing approximately 60 family portraits by various studios, some loose, to include a cabinet card of James Abram Garfield (1831-1881), 20th president of the United States, who was assassinated in 1881. Bound in full crushed morocco with embossed floral design to upper board, all edges gilt, brass clasp |
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65 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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96 |
Graf von Faber-Castell Limited Edition 1761-2001, white gold "Perfect Pencil", numbered 25/99. Housed in presentation gift box with brochure, a sliding drawer revealing a Guarantee and signed Certificate, numbered 25/99. The certificate states, 'The magnum format cap in solid white gold (18 carat) is crowned with three fine-quality diamonds. The colour quality of the fine-quality stones is an excellent G-H (nearly colourless) and the purity is high at VS 2. Their size is 0.05 to 0.06, and they a |
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£500 - £800 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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97 |
Mid-Victorian carte-de-visite album of eminent people, containing 62 albumen prints, c.1860, all being portraits of distinguished persons of the era, trimmed to ovals, 45mm, mounted, with loosely inserted manuscript list of the sitters. The photographs appear to have engraved detail or highlights (generally on the clothing). After John Jabez Edwin Mayall and Henry Joseph Whitlock, some sharing similarities with the engraved versions by Daniel John Pound. Sitters include Charles Dickens, David Li |
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100 |
£200 - £300 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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98 |
Harry Potter & J K Rowling Interest. Wyedean School Expressive Arts Department presents An Evening of Words and Music, 13-15 December [1978]. An original programme for a Christmas concert at Wyedean School, Sedbury, where J K Rowling was a notable student. The programme lists Rowling as a reader for item 15, 'Story'. 7pp., purple ink cover designed by Graham Wilde & Chris Senior. Very well-preserved with slight rust around staples Provenance: Consigned by a former teacher who is listed in the |
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180 |
£200 - £400 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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99 |
Manuscript military parole ledger, 1760-61, recording dates, locations, orders, and names of field officers & quarter guards on duty. Locations include Leicester, Coventry, Birmingham, Lichfield, Nuneaton, Coleshill, Hertford, Denbigh, London, Granby, Hambleton, Windsor, York, Chester, and others. Small quarto, contemporary vellum, laid paper, copiously filled with inscriptions in various hands on 166 pages (83 leaves). Contents generally well-preserved with some toning from age, occasional mark |
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£1,000 - £1,500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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100 |
Victorian Valentine, c.1842, featuring hand-coloured etching of flowers with romantic verse and paper lace border, opening to reveal manuscript verse, addressed 'To Miss Mary Elliott, Redheugh, from S' [possibly relating to the Eliot Clan of Redheugh]. 'O Mary fair beyond compare / Give me a lock of thy sunny hair / Twill bind my heart for evermair / Until the day I die.' Folded as sent, addressed again to Miss Mary Elliott of Redheugh with remnants of wax seal, the paper bearing manufacturer's |
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£100 - £200 |
Unsold |
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